Atlantic Yards SHoP Talk
A couple new bits of info about Atlantic Yards came to light yesterday. First off, The Observer confirmed that the architecture firm SHoP will design AY’s first residential building, which Forest City Ratner may or may not start work on next year. (The firm is designing the Barclays arena along with Ellerbe Becket.) Second, Atlantic…
A couple new bits of info about Atlantic Yards came to light yesterday. First off, The Observer confirmed that the architecture firm SHoP will design AY’s first residential building, which Forest City Ratner may or may not start work on next year. (The firm is designing the Barclays arena along with Ellerbe Becket.) Second, Atlantic Yards Report reported that FCR has launched a new website for the project. The blog notes that the site lacks a few fundamentals, such as “renderings of any building beyond the arena” and “a timeline.” You can see it for yourself here.
SHoP Scores First Apartment Building at Atlantic Yards [Observer]
New, Simplified Atlantic Yards Web Site Emerges [AY Report]
Obviously this project has a long time line.
I just don’t see what the point is of comparing it to the construction of a relatively simple building in Philadelphia as proof that “things progress at a different rate in Philadelphia.”
What 15 years – FIFTY YEARS…from new Ebbets Field to Baruch College and on and on – but NONE of that time was related to construction…just “community input”
So your saying that the past 6 years have nothing to do with the timeline of the project??? And now the timing issue as well???
ROTFLMMFAO
15 years has nothing to do with construction time. The past 6 years have been about lawsuits, and now almost all the waiting is about market timing.
I’m sure every city has building projects that go years or decades from announcement or approval to construction, although most are not the political clusterfuck that this one is.
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enjoy the gentrification of the area.
let’s not.
*rob*
It is funny how the people that delayed this project are now complaining that it will take too long to build.
Let’s support this project and enjoy the gentrification of the area.
As opposed to 15 years for this????
Over a year and a half seems like a long time to finish a 4 story suburban-style office building.
Once the arena got started, it has been moving at a pretty decent place.
The current hold-up for the apartment buildings is financing/demand, not anything related to NYC construction pacing.
As compared to what happens in NYC, things progress at a different rate in Philadelphia.
This month, Glaxo Smithkline will break ground on the new A.M. Stern designed headquarters and they will finish it by 4Q 2012.
See the pic…
http://www.ramsa.com/news/archive/glaxosmithkline.html